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Canada Transportation 2018

SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Canada Transportation 2018
SOURCE: 2018 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 28, 2018

National air transport system:
number of registered air carriers: 51
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 879
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 80,228,301
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 2,074,830,881 mt-km (2015)

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix:
C (2016)

Airports:
1,467 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 4
[see also: Airports country ranks ]

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 523
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - total country ranks ]
over 3,047 m: 21
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - over 3,047 m country ranks ]
2,438 to 3,047 m: 19
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - 2,438 to 3,047 m country ranks ]
1,524 to 2,437 m: 147
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - 1,524 to 2,437 m country ranks ]
914 to 1,523 m: 257
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - 914 to 1,523 m country ranks ]
under 914 m: 79 (2017)
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - under 914 m country ranks ]

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 944
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - total country ranks ]
1,524 to 2,437 m: 75
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - 1,524 to 2,437 m country ranks ]
914 to 1,523 m: 385
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - 914 to 1,523 m country ranks ]
under 914 m: 484 (2013)
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - under 914 m country ranks ]

Heliports:
26 (2013)
[see also: Heliports country ranks ]

Pipelines:
gas and liquid petroleum 110,000 km (2017)

Railways:
total: 77,932 km
[see also: Railways - total country ranks ]
standard gauge: 77,932 km 1.435-m gauge (2014)
country comparison to the world: 4

Roadways:
total: 1,042,300 km
[see also: Roadways - total country ranks ]
paved: 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways)
[see also: Roadways - paved country ranks ]
unpaved: 626,700 km (2011)
[see also: Roadways - unpaved country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 7

Waterways:
636 km (Saint Lawrence Seaway of 3,769 km, including the Saint Lawrence River of 3,058 km, shared with United States) (2011)
country comparison to the world: 77
[see also: Waterways country ranks ]

Merchant marine:
total: 639
[see also: Merchant marine - total country ranks ]
by type: bulk carrier 16, container ship 1, general cargo 88, oil tanker 15, other 519 (2017)

Ports and terminals:
major seaport(s): Halifax, Saint John (New Brunswick), Vancouver
river and lake port(s): Montreal, Quebec City, Sept-Isles (St. Lawrence); Fraser River Port (Fraser); Hamilton (Lake Ontario)
oil terminal(s): Lower Lakes terminal
dry bulk cargo port(s): Port-Cartier (iron ore and grain),
container port(s): Montreal (1,446,000), Vancouver (3,054,000)(2015)
LNG terminal(s) (import): Saint John


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Canada on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Canada Transportation 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Canada Transportation 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) The assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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